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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk · 05/06/2025

Another enjoyable evening last night at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Alchemy of Words - in conversation with @drruthstacey.bsky.social & Barbara Erskine about resilient women in literature. A really insightful conversation & engaged audience. One more event there for me - poetry panel tonight.

Ruth, Barbara and Jo sitting in conversation in the book shop

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

You are the most music packed music

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Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Your poems are your children. Love them. Tell other people you love them. Be ambitious for them. Don’t let them have their mates round when you’re not home.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Poets: what was your worst review? My favourites: (I, Ursula) 'This sounds like a feminist strain of madness.' & (How to Wear Grunge)'Here is an author that really hasn't got a clue: about poetry, language... sappy, half-arsed, melodramatic scribble...' Embrace the bad reviews, they need love too ❤️

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I watched Twin Peaks and other David Lynch films as a young teen. I think Lynch created visuals that seared themselves inside my mind, often uncomfortably, full of colour symbolism, surrealness, rawness. Incredible filmmaker.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Would be great to chat over a coffee on Teams sometime?

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Katherine Langrish @kathlangrish.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

How many books did you read as a child, where the discovery of a concealed room was one of the most exciting parts of the story? Here's a post about secret rooms - and Bloody Chambers! steelthistles.blogspot.com/2016/07/secr...

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Secret Rooms, Bloody Chambers

When I was twelve, my brother and I had a den in an unused outbuilding belonging to the house we lived in. We trod a narrow wi...

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Now this word can dance inside my mind in those sorrowful moments before the dawn. Perhaps it will chase the worries away.

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...

The text says: Last few places left! Permission writing workshop: Kickstart your New Year of writing. What are your writing taboos/habits and what might happen if you break some? Zoom, Mon Jan 13th, 7-8.30pm UK time.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Still can't believe my story won second prize in Anna's competition...gave me a big kick of self belief in my prose writing. Thank you @annasmithwrites.bsky.social for choosing my story and for running the comp with such amazing prizes...

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Watch the episode with women driving in the cars they love, it's great!

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is the best advice and just what I needed right now. Thanks @pascalepetit.bsky.social

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Lost myself in this incredible book by @rachelartsmith.bsky.social 'the moment is repeated. and again. her folded. present. is spread out. a tablecloth.' The erasures and layering of voice create the subjective, decorative experience I am fascinated by in my current research.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

One of the uplifting parts of my job are the conversations I have with writers who come to the Hive Library in Worcester. November's guest was the poet Sabeen Chaudhry who was generous with her insights into her craft. 📝📖

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Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My recent collection www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-n...

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I am forever grateful I got to hear her read once. Incredible poet.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I had to stand most of the way from Newcastle to Birmingham once and my ticket was £130.

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I’ve started a substack called CLARE’S POETRY CIRCLE. It’s free to read and subscribe. Today we’ve begun a readalong of Keats’ LAMIA 🐍🐍🐍 Do read part one and join the conversation! clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/p/reading-la...

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Reading ‘Lamia’ by John Keats

Part One

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I run a Reading Series event at the Hive Library, Worcester where I invite a writer to chat about their practice, followed by a reading of their latest work. My next guest is Sabeen Chaudhry 27th Nov. And it's free, just book through the library. 📖

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A brilliant line up and it's free!

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

People ask me what books I recommend...here's one 📖

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 19/11/2024

🌱 Today’s haiku: swans glide gently on a glass shard canal — winter paints their quiet path Feeling grateful on my morning run along the Edinburgh canal. (Image: Winter in Bruges, Belgium by Louis Joseph Reckelbus) #Haiku #Poetry #BlueSkyPoets

Painting of a snowy canal scene in Bruges, Belgium, by Louis Joseph Reckelbus. The image features a stone bridge arching over a calm, partially frozen canal. Swans glide on the dark water below, surrounded by snow-covered banks, bare trees, and historic buildings dusted with snow. The atmosphere is peaceful and wintry, with muted tones of white, brown, and grey.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

This looks amazing! Adding to my want to buy list! 📖

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Helen Ivory 🪠🐈‍⬛ @helenivory.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is the first poem in Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social and the first poem I read at an event. Rahhh!

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's beautiful. I love the quiet.

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Even though I teach poetry in a university I always feel like a beginner. There's always a new idea, a new form, genre, experimentation. Hopeful and humble is a good description.

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My 2024 has been books about women: freebleeding @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social with Charley Barnes, i get lost … @salopress.bsky.social with @galiamelon.bsky.social and Portrait in Mustard - Seren, with the speaker of my poems in a wardrobe of charity shop clothes ❤️

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Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Pamela Colman Smith was a brilliant illustrator and a passionate, ambitious woman, underpaid and sidelined in her lifetime. She strived so hard for success and her frustration is palpable a century later. In a 1901 letter to Alfred Bigelow Paine, she wrote, “Pigs! The publishers are all pigs!?!”

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling

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